Honestly I think the forces pushing for autonomous cars will win out.

Accidents are going to increase but not to the point where people are seeing them everywhere.

Accidents are a super rare occurrence with humans at the wheel

There will be more crashes with computers but accidents will still be a rare occurrence, most people will never see one

So it wont be an issue on people’s minds

And if the statistics show accidents are more prevalent with autonomous cars the narrative is going to be something like “well emission are less with autonomous cars“, “congestion is less with autonomous car“, some line which will be used to justify the existence of autonomous cars and the higher fatality rate even if “the line” is untrue.